Definizione monolingua

snout

snout (third-person singular simple present snouts, present participle snouting, simple past and past participle snouted)

1. To furnish with a nozzle or point.

snout (plural snouts)

1. The long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

   The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout

2. The nose of a man, (in contempt).

   His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.

3. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

   If you place the snout right into the bucket, it wont spray as much.

4. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
5. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
6. (UK, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
   • 1967, Len Deighton, Only When I Laugh

     (Bob, p. 55:) Charlie was the most vicious screw on the block ... He caught me with the two ounces of snout right in my hand, caught me by the hair, and swung me round in the exercise yard ...

     (Spider, p. 175:) She brings me snout and sweets, and sometimes a cake from Mum.

   • 1982, Edward Bond, Saved

     LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout. / MIKE. Five or ten?

   • 2000, Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank, We Think the World of You

     Also he was ""doing his nut"" for some ""snout."" I said I would provide cigarettes.

   • 2004, Allan Sillitoe, New and Collected Stories

     Raymond rolled a neat cigarette. ""What about some snout, then?"" ""No, thanks."" He laughed. Smoke drifted from his open mouth.

Definizione dizionario snout

muso

ceffo

grifo

grugno

naso

nasone

volto

Altri significati:

To furnish with a nozzle or point.

The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.

anterior prolongation of head of weevil and other insects

The long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

anterior prolongation of the head of gastropod

nose of a man, (in contempt)

nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

(UK, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.

long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast

The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.

The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

The muzzle of swine (Suidae), like that of the pig and wild boar.

The nose of a man, (in contempt).